These are some minor improvements I came up when investigating "orphan" sections (.sfpr currently is). For 4.13.
Nicholas Piggin (5): powerpc/64: place sfpr section explicitly with the linker script powerpc/64: do not link crtsavres.o in vmlinux powerpc/64: do not link crtsaveres.o in boot powerpc/64: do not create new section for save/restore functions powerpc/64: Linker on-demand save/restore functions for modules arch/powerpc/Makefile | 10 ++++++++++ arch/powerpc/boot/Makefile | 3 ++- arch/powerpc/boot/crtsavres.S | 8 ++++---- arch/powerpc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 8 ++++++++ arch/powerpc/lib/Makefile | 13 ++++++++++--- arch/powerpc/lib/crtsavres.S | 6 ++---- 6 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0